Curriculum Vitae
EDWARD M. BRUNER
October, 2008
Address:
office:
Department of Anthropology
607 South Mathews
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-3616
Home:
2022 Cureton Drive
Urbana, IL 61801
217-384-6383
(cell) 217-898-9093
(fax) 217-384-7720
ebruner@uiuc.edu
Marital Status:
Married, two children
Degrees:
Ph.D. University of Chicago 1954
M.A. Ohio State University 1950
B.A. Ohio State University 1948
Ph.D. Thesis: A Study of Cultural Change and Persistence in a
Mandan-Hidatsa Indian Village.
Academic Positions:
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Professor Emeritus of Criticism and
Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, 1994Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong
Kong. Spring semester, 1998
Professor of Anthropology (1966-1994), Professor of Criticism and
Interpretive Theory (1982-1994), University of Illinois
Adjunct Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois
University, 1990-1994
Field Director, International School of America, International Honors
Program, 1983-1984
Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, 1966-1970
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois, 1961-1966
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University, 1954-1960
Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1953-1954
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Elected Offices:
President, President-elect, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 1987-1991
Member, Board of Directors, American Anthropological Association, 19891991
President, President-elect, American Ethnological Society, 1980-1982
Chairman, Indonesian Studies Committee, Association of Asian Studies,
1976-1978
Honors, Appointments:
Resource Editor, Annals of Tourism Research, 2004Member, Advisory Board, Tourist Studies, 2000Consultant, Natural Resource Conservation and Historic Preservation,
Technical Assistance Project, USAID and MUCIA, Cape Coast, Ghana, 1994
Member, Editorial Board, Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, 1993Summer Scholar, School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1992
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of
Illinois, 1989
William F. Prokasy Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1989
Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in Anthropology, 1987-1988
Member, Program Committee for Annual Meetings, American Anthropological
Association, 1988-1989
Member, International Commission on Urban Anthropology, International
Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 1980
Representative, American Anthropological Association, to Section H
(Anthropology), American Association for the Advancement of Science, 19791983
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1980
Center for Advanced Study, University of
1982-1983, 1970-1971
Illinois, Associate,
Interdisciplinary Fellow in Literary Criticism, University of Illinois,
1979-1980
AMOCO Undergraduate Teaching and Curriculum Development Award, University
of Illinois, 1978
Director, Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Project, 1967-1974
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Consultant, Ford Foundation, National Assessment of Education in
Indonesia, July 1969, August 1970
Member, Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group, 1967-1972
Chairman, Committee for Advanced Test in Anthropology, Educational Testing
Service, 1967-1969
Consultant, Cultural Anthropology Fellowship Review Committee, National
Institute of Mental Health, 1966
Social Science Research Council, Faculty Grants Committee, 1966
Institute of Advanced Projects, East West Center, University of Hawaii,
Senior Scholar, 1963
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, Fellow,
1960-1961
Grants, Fellowships:
Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics. Faculty
Fellowship, Spring, 1991
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1989
Center for Asian Studies, 1971, 1974, 1985
University of Illinois Research Board, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1977,
1981, 1983, 1989, 2005, 2006
Wenner-Gren Foundation, 1964, 1966-1967, 1976-1977
Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group, research grant, 1969-1971
Center for International Comparative Studies, 1968, 1969, 1970
Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities, 1970
National Science Foundation, 1968
National Institute of Mental Health, research grant, 1957, 1965
Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference grant, Burg Wartenstein, 1964
National Science Foundation, Fellowship, 1961
Social Science Research Council, grant-in-aid, 1960
Ford Foundation, Foreign Area Training Fellowship, 1957-1958
Ford Foundation, grant-in-aid to facilitate research in the
behavioral sciences, Yale University, 1957
National Science Foundation, research grant, 1957
Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University, grant, 1957
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University Fellow, University of Chicago, 1950-1951
Field Research:
Tourism - Yunnan, China, 1999
Tourism - Kenya, 1995, 1999
Tourism - Ghana, West Africa, 1994 (6 weeks)
Lincoln's New Salem Historic Site, Illinois, 1988-1990
Tourism - Java, Bali, and Sulawesi, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1997
Tourism - Bali, Kenya, Egypt, Israel, 1983-1984
Culture change - Java and Sumatra, Indonesia, 1969-1973 (12 months)
Urbanization - American Indians, Chicago, 1966
Village life, urbanization - Toba Batak, Sumatra, Indonesia, 1957-1958
Acculturation - Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota, 1952-1953
Culture change – Ramah Navaho, New Mexico, 1948
Interests:
Tourism, interpretive anthropology, narratology, performance, processes of
change, urbanization, ethnicity, Indonesia, American culture
Professional Societies:
Fellow, American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Society
Society of Humanistic Anthropology
Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Fellow, Association for the Anthropological Study of Play
Fellow, Society of Cultural Anthropology
Listed in:
Who's Who in America
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
1979
Art, Ritual and Society in Indonesia. Southeast Asia Monograph 53.
Athens: Ohio University Press. Pp. 189. (ed. with Judith 0. Becker).
1984
Text, Play and Story: The Construction and Reconstruction of Self
and Society. (ed.) 1983 Proceedings, American Ethnological
Society. Washington D.C.: American Anthropological Association.
Pp. 364. Reissued, 1988, Chicago: Waveland Press.
1986
The Anthropology of Experience. Urbana: University of Illinois.
Pp. 391. (ed. with Victor W. Turner). Translated, Spanish edition,
Madrid: Ediciones Jucar.
1995
International Tourism: Identity and Change. (ed. with MarieFrançoise Lanfant and John Allcock.) London: Sage.
2005
Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press. Japanese edition, Tokyo: The Asano Agency.
Articles, chapters:
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1951
Pilot Study of a B-50 Air Crew. HRRL Report 21, Headquarters
Command, Bolling Air Force Base. (with C. L. Shartle, J. K.
Hemphill, and R.W. Hites)
1953
A Level-of-Aspiration Study Among the Ramah Navaho. Journal of
Personality 21 (3): 375-385. (with J. B. Rotter)
1953
Assimilation Among Fort Berthold Indians.
(4): 21-29.
1955
Two Processes of Change in Mandan-Hidatsa Kinship Terminology.
American Anthropologist 57 (4): 840-850. Reprinted in: Kinship and
Social Structure. Nelson H. Graburn, ed. New York: Harper and
Row, 1971.
1956
Cultural Transmission and Cultural Change. Southwestern Journal of
Anthropology 12 (2): 191-199. Reprinted in: Social Structure and
Personality. Y. Cohen, ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1961. Pp. 112-116. Reprinted in: Personality and Social Systems.
Neil J. Smelser and William T. Smelser, eds. New York: John Wiley
and Sons, 1963. Pp. 481-487. Reprinted in: Readings in
Anthropology. J. D. Jennings and E. Adamson Hoebel, eds. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1966. Pp. 337-342. Reprinted in: The Emergent Native
Americans: A Reader in Culture Contact. Deward E. Walker, Jr., ed.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Pp. 69-75.
1956
Primary Group Experience and the Processes of Acculturation.
American Anthropologist 59 (4): 605-623.
1956
Family, Ethnic Groups. In: Area Handbook on Indonesia. Southeast
Asia Studies, Yale University, for Human Relations Area Files Inc.,
New Haven.
1957
Life History of a Fort Berthold Indian Psychotic. Microcard
Publications of Primary Records in Culture and Personality, Vol. 2,
No. 9.
1957
The Toba Batak Village. In: Local, Ethnic, and National Loyalties
in Village Indonesia: A Symposium. G. W. Skinner, ed. Southeast
Asia Studies, Yale University, and the Institute of Pacific
Relations, New York.
1957
Kinship Organization Among the Urban Batak of Sumatra. Transactions,
New York Academy of Sciences 22 (2): 118-125.
1960
The Concept of Culture. 1960 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of
Foreign Languages. (with E. Friedl and R. F. Herzfeld)
1961
Mandan. In:
Spicer, ed.
277.
1961
Urbanization and Ethnic Identity in North Sumatra. American
Anthropologist 63: 508-521. Reprinted in: Urbanization in
Indonesia: Selected Readings. James C. Jackson, ed. Singapore:
The American Indian 6
Perspectives in American Indian Culture Change. E. H.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Pp. 187-
Asia
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Pacific Press (Pte) Ltd., 1972. Reprinted in: People and Housing in
Third World Cities. Essex: Longman.
1963
Medan: The Role of Kinship in an Indonesian City. In: Pacific Port
Towns and Cities. A. Spoehr, ed. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press.
Pp.1-12. Reprinted in: Kinship and Family Organization. B. Farber,
ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966. Pp. 418-426. Reprinted in:
Peasants in Cities: Readings in the Anthropology of Urbanization.
W. Mangin, ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. Pp. 122-134.
1963
Family Interaction at Two Levels of Acculturation in Sumatra.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 33: 51-59. (with Alan 0. Ross)
1963
The Introductory Course in Cultural Anthropology. In: The Teaching
of Anthropology. D.G. Mandelbaum, G.W. Lasker, and Ethel M. Albert,
eds. American Anthropological Association. Memoirs 91. Berkeley:
University of California Press. Pp. 141-152. (with George D.
Spindler). Abridged edition, 1967. Pp. 129-140.
1964
The Psychological Approach in Anthropology. In: Horizons of
Anthropology. S. Tax, ed. Chicago: Aldine. Pp. 71-80. Second
edition, S. Tax and Leslie G. Freeman, eds. Pp. 344-354. Reprinted
In: Ideas of Culture. Frederick C. Gamst and Edward Norbeck, eds.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Pp. 154-160.
1964
Culture and Personality. Voice of America, Forum Lectures.
Anthropology Series 19. Pp. 1-8.
1966
Discussion, the Navaho Urban Relocation Research Project. Research
Report 17, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado,
Pp. 73-83.
1968
Some Observations on Cultural Change and Psychological Stress:
Indonesia. Report, Eighth International Congress of Anthropological
and Ethnological Sciences, Tokyo. Pp. 399-400.
1970
Anthropological Observations on Primary Education in Indonesia.
Workshop on Problems of Education in Developing Countries, TuguBogor, Indonesia. (with Elaine C. Bruner)
1972
Batak Ethnic Associations in Three Indonesian Cities. Southwestern
Journal of Anthropology 28 (3): 207-229.
1973
Kin and Non-Kin. In: Urban Anthropology.
Aidan Southall, ed. New
York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 373-392. Reprinted in: Pokokpokok Antropologi Budaya. T.O.Ihromy, ed. Jakarta: Obor. Pp. 159179.
1973
The Missing Tins of Chicken: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to
Culture Change. Ethos 1 (2): 219-238.
1973
Introduction, The Labors of the Datoe and Other Essays on the Bataks
of Asahan (North Sumatra), by Harley Harris Bartlett. Michigan
Papers on South and Southeast Asia No. 5. Pp. ix-xiii.
1974
The Expression of Ethnicity in Indonesia. In: Urban Ethnicity.
Abner Cohen, ed. ASA Monograph 12. London: Tavistock. Pp. 251-280.
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Also in Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group, Papers, Series
72-9. Pp. 20. Reprinted in: Sociology of Southeast Asia. HansDieter Evers, ed. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press. Pp. 140152.
1974
Indonesian Homecoming: A Case Study in the Analysis of Ritual.
Module Publication 54. Addison-Wesley
1974
The City in Indonesia. Proceedings, Conference on Indonesian
Studies. Madison, Wisconsin. Pp. 4-5.
1976
Tradition and Modernization in Batak Society. In: Responses to
Change. George DeVos, ed. New York: Van Nostrand. Pp. 234-252.
1978
Beyond Binaries.
1979
Indonesian Models in Social Action. In: Art, Ritual and Society in
Indonesia. Bruner and Becker, eds. Southeast Asia Monographs 53.
Athens: Ohio University Press. Pp. 1-9.
1979
Modern? Indonesian? Culture? In: What is Modern Indonesian
Culture. Gloria Davis, ed. Southeast Asia Monographs 52. Athens:
Ohio University Press. Pp. 300-306.
1979
Personal Anthropology.
1980
Gender Differences in Graffiti: A Semiotic Perspective. Women's
Studies International Quarterly 3:239-252. (with Jane Paige Kelso)
Reprinted in: The Voices and Words of Women and Men. Cheris
Kramerae, ed. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Reprinted in: The American
Dimension: Cultural Myths and Social Realities. W. Arens and S.
Montague, eds. Sherman Oaks, California: Alfred Publishing, 1981,
2nd edition.
1980
Anthropology 280: Personal Anthropology. In: Currents of Warm
Life: Popular Culture in American Higher Education. Mark A. Gordon
and Jack Nachbar, eds. Bowling Green, Ohio: The Bowling Green
University Popular Press. Pp. 111-115.
1980
Image and Reflexivity in Social Life.
1981
Exchange Theory and Migration. In: Persistence and Exchange.
Roland W. Force and Brenda Bishop, eds. Honolulu: Pacific Science
Association. Pp. 135-140.
1982
Models of Urban Kinship. In: Towards a Political Economy of
Urbanization in Third World Countries. Helen I. Safa, ed. New
Delhi: Oxford University Press. Pp. 105-118.
1983
Emergent vs. Invariant Models. In: Beyond Samosir: Recent Studies
of Batak Peoples of Sumatra. Rita Smith and Richard D. Kipp, eds.
Monographs in Southeast Asia. Athens: Ohio University Press. Pp.
13-20.
1984
The Opening Up of Anthropology. In: Text, Play, and Story: The
Construction and Reconstruction of Self and Society. Bruner, ed.
Pp. 1-16.
Reviews in Anthropology 5 (2): 189-195.
Anthropology Newsletter 20 (8): 18-20.
The Cresset 63 (7): 7-10.
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1984
Dialogic Narration and the Paradoxes of Masada. In: Text, Play and
Story: The Construction and Reconstruction of Self and Society.
Bruner, ed. Pp. 56-79. (with Phyllis Gorfain). Reprinted in:
Anthropological Poetics. Ivan Brady, ed. Savage, Maryland: Rowman
and Littlefield, 1990. Pp. 177-203.
1984
The Symbolics of Urban Migration. In: The Prospects for Plural
Societies. David Maybury-Lewis, ed. 1982 Proceedings, American
Ethnological Society. Washington D.C.: American Anthropological
Association. Pp. 64-76.
1986
Experience and Its Expressions. In:
Experience. Turner and Bruner, eds.
1986
Ethnography as Narrative. In: The Anthropology of Experience.
Turner and Bruner, eds. Pp. 139-155. Reprinted in: Memory,
Identity, Community: The Idea of Narrative in the Human Sciences.
eds. Hinchman and Hinchman. State University of New York Press.
1996. Reprinted in: Narrative Theory: Critical Concepts in Literary
and Cultural Studies, ed. Mieke Bal. London: Routledge. 2004.
Reprinted in: Fieldwork, ed. Chris Pole. London: Sage. 2004.
1986
Anthropology and Human Studies.
124.
1987
East Africa: Tourist Performances and Representations. Problemy
Turystyki (Problems of Tourism) X (3): 25-29. Warsaw, Poland. (with
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett)
1987
Megaliths, Migration and the Segmented Self. In: Cultures and
Societies of North Sumatra. R. Carle, ed. Veröffentlichungen des
Seminars für Indonesische und Südseesprachen der Universität
Hamburg. Vol 19. Berlin/Hamburg: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.
1989
Tourism. In: International Encyclopedia of Communications, Vol. 4.
New York: Oxford University Press. Pg. 249-253. (with Barbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett).
1989
Tourism, Creativity, and Authenticity.
Interaction 10: 109-114.
1989
On Cannibals, Tourists, and Ethnographers.
4:438-445.
1990
Introduction: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing. In:
Conversations in Anthropology: Anthropology and Literature. Paul
Benson, ed. Steward Journal 17: 1 and 2, Fall/Spring 1987-1988,
pp.1-19.
1990
Touristic Diversity: Report on Theory Session. Conference on Tourism
and the Change of Life Styles, Instytut Turystyki, Warsaw, Poland,
Sept 16-18, 1988). Problemy Turystyki (Problems of Tourism) XII (12): 101-102. (with Michel Picard).
1991
Man Alive, Woman Alive.
The Anthropology of
Pp. 3-29.
Cultural Anthropology 1(1): 121-
Studies in Symbolic
Cultural Anthropology
Reviews in Anthropology 16: 195-201.
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1991
The Transformation of Self in Tourism.
Vol. 18 (2): 238-250.
Annals of Tourism Research.
1993
Epilogue: Creative Persona and the Problem of Authenticity. In:
Creativity/Anthropology. Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, and Renato
Rosaldo, eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Pp. 321-334.
1993
Introduction: The Ethnographic Self and the Personal Self. In:
Anthropology and Literature. Paul Benson, ed. University of
Illinois Press: Urbana. Pp. 1-26.
1993
Introduction. In, Museums and Tourism. (ed.) Edward M.
Bruner, special issue, Museum Anthropology 17 (3): 6.
1993
Lincoln's New Salem as a Contested Site. In, Museums and Tourism.
(ed.) Bruner, ed. special issue, Museum Anthropology 17 (3):14-25.
1993
Authenticity, Reproductions, and the Patrimony of Abraham Lincoln.
Le Tourisme International Entre Tradition et Modernite. Centre
d'Etudes Tourisme et Civilisation. Laboratoire D'EthnologieUniversite de Nice. pp. 49-57.
1994
Tourism as Process. (with Bennetta Jules-Rosette). Annals of Tourism
Research 21 (2): 404-406.
1994
Abraham Lincoln as Authentic Reproduction: A Critique of
Postmodernism. American Anthropologist 96 (2): 397-415. Reprinted
in The Political Nature of Cultural Heritage and Tourism. Dallen
Timothy (ed.) Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing.
1994
Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa. (with Barbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett). Cultural Anthropology 9 (2):435-470.
1995
The Ethnographer/Tourist in Indonesia. In International Tourism:
Identity and Change. (eds.) Marie-Françoise Lanfant, John Allcock,
and Edward M. Bruner. London: Sage. Pp. 224-241.
1996
My Life in an Ashram.
1996
Tourism in the Balinese Borderzone. In Displacement, Diaspora, and
Geographies of Identity, Smadar Lavie and Ted Swedenburg (eds.),
Durham: Duke University Press. Pp. 157-179. Reprinted in: Tourists
and Tourism: A Reader, Sharon Bohn Gmelch (ed.), Long Grove,
Illinois: Waveland Press. Pp. 219-238.
1996
Tourism in Ghana: The Representation of Slavery and the Return of
the Black Diaspora. American Anthropologist 98 (2): 290-304.
Reprinted in The Political Nature of Cultural Heritage and Tourism.
Dallen Timothy (ed.) Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing.
1999
Deconstructing the Role of the Discussant. In: Subject to Writing:
the Victor Turner Prize and the Anthropological Text. Barbara
Babcock, ed., special issue, Anthropology and Humanism 24 (2): 129133.
Qualitative Inquiry 2 (): 300-319.
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1999
Return to Sumatra: 1957, 1997. American Ethnologist 26 (2): 461477. Reprinted in: The American Tradition in Qualitative Research,
Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, eds. London: The Bardwell Press.
2001.
2000
Culture Broker, Photography, Professional Native, Gifts, Invention
of Culture, Natives, Spatial Interaction. Entries for Encyclopedia
of Tourism. Jafar Jafari, ed. London: Routledge.
2001
Ethnic Tourism: One Tribe, Three Contexts. In: Tourism,
Anthropology, and China. Tan Chee Beng, Sidney C. H. Cheung, and
Yang Hui, eds. Bangkok: White Lotus. Pp. 55-70.
2001
The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, Nationalism, and
Globalization in African Tourism. American Ethnologist 28 (4): 881908. Reprinted in: Tourists and Tourism: A Reader, Sharon Bohn
Gmelch (ed.), Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press. Pp. 127-156.
2002
The Representation of African Pastoralists: a Commentary. In:
Persistent Popular Images of Pastoralists. Robert J. Gordon and
Corinne A. Kratz, (eds.), Visual Anthropology 15 (3-4):275-280.
2005
Through the Looking Glass: Reflections on an Anthropological Life.
Special Issue in Honor of Edward M. Bruner. Anthropology and
Humanism 30 (2): 201-207.
2006
Mission Creep in the IRB World. (with C.K. Gunsalus et. al.)
Editorial, Science 312 (5779):1441, June 9, 2006.
2007
The Illinois White Paper: Improving the System for Protecting Human
Subjects: Counteracting IRM “Mission Creep.” Qualitative Inquiry 13
(5): 617-649. (with C.K. Gunsalus, et. al).
2009
Remembering My Jewish Father. Anthropology and Humanism.
2009
Around the World in Sixty Years. In: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
New Fieldsites, New Visions. Ed. Alma Gottlieb. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press.
Reviews, Comments:
1952
Review of: Alfred W. Bowers, Mandan Social and Ceremonial
Organization. The Americas 9 (2): 242-243.
1956
Review of: J. E. Manchip White, Anthropology. American
Anthropologist 58 (1): 189-190.
1956
Rejoinder to: A. Kimball Romney and Duane Metzger, On the Processes
of Change in Kinship Terminology. American Anthropologist 58 (3):
554-556.
1957
Differential Culture Change: Report on the Inter-university Summer
Research Seminar, 1957. Items 11 (1): 1-3.
1957
Review of: Robert H. Lowie, The Crow Indians. American
Anthropologist 59 (4): 727.
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1961
Review of: H. G. Barnett, Being a Paluan. John Beattie, Bunyaro: An
African Kingdom.
C. W. M. Hart and Arnold R. Pilling, The Tiwi of
North Australia. E. Adamson Hoebel, The Cheyennes: Indians of the
Great Plains.
Oscar Lewis, Tepoztlan: Village in Mexico.
American Anthropologist 63 (1): 141-143.
1962
Review of: Edwin Thompson Denig, Five Indian Tribes of the Upper
Missouri: Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees, Crows. American
Anthropologist 64: 657-58.
1962
Review of: Koentjaraningrat, Some Social-Anthropological
Observations on Gotong-Rojong Practices in Two Villages of Central
Java. American Anthropologist 64: 1089-90.
1963
Hidatsa.
1963
Review of: J.W. Gould, Americans in Sumatra.
Anthropologist 65: 492.
1963
Review of: E. Goffman, Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction.
American Anthropologist 65: 1416-17.
1964
Review of: Robbins Burling, Rengasanggri: Family and Kinship in a
Garo Village. Journal of Asian Studies 23 (3): 492.
1965
Review of: R.E. Engler, Jr., Regional Traditions and Social
Patterns: The Challenge of Diversity. Science 149: 736.
1965
Urban Anthropology.
1966
Review of: Clifford Geertz, Peddlers and Princes: Social Change and
Economic Modernization in Two Indonesian Towns. American
Anthropologist 68 (1): 255-258.
1967
Comments, Urbanization and Social Change in Africa. Current
Anthropology 8 (4) 284-285.
1967
Review of: Alfred W. Bowers, Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial
Organization. American Anthropologist 69 (1): 116-117.
1968
Review of: George Catlin, O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony.
Ethnohistory 15 (4): 441-442.
1969
Review of: Clellan S. Ford, Smoke From Their Fires: The Life of a
Kwakiutl Chief. Man 4 (1): 154.
1969
Review of: James L. Peacock, Rites of Modernization: Symbolic and
Social Aspects of Indonesian Proletarian Drama. American
Anthropologist 71 (3): 535-537.
1970
Review of: James T. Siegel, The Rope of God.
Studies 29 (3): 740-741.
1971
Review of: Paul B. Pedersen, Batak Blood and Protestant Soul: The
Development of National Batak Churches in North Sumatra. Journal of
Southeast Asian Studies 2 (2): 239-40.
Encyclopedia Britannica, XI: 542-43.
American
Current Anthropology 6 (1): 118-119.
Journal of Asian
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1972
Julian H. Steward: A Memorial. Journal of the Steward
Anthropological Society 3 (2): 107-110.
1973
Comments, Anthropology and Colonialism.
(5): 593.
1973
Review of: A.B. Hudson, Padju Epat: The Ma'anyan of Indonesian
Borneo. Man 8 (1): 131.
1975
Review of: Masri Singarimbun, Kinship, Descent and Alliance
Among the Karo Batak. Pacific Affairs 48 (4): 647-8.
1976
Review of: R.H. Barnes, Kedang: A Study of the Collective Thought
of an Eastern Indonesian People. Journal of Asian Studies 35 (2):
356-357.
1977
Review of: Koentjaraningrat, Anthropology in Indonesia: A
Bibliographical Review. American Anthropologist 79 (3): 691
1980
Review of: James Siegel, Shadow and Sound: The Historical Thought
of a Sumatran People. Man 15 (1): 213-214.
1980
Review of: George D. Spindler (ed.), The Making of Psychological
Anthropology. American Ethnologist 7 (1): 198-200.
1986
Review of: Richard Schechner, Between Theatre and Anthropology.
American Anthropologist 80 (3): 761-762.
1989
Review of: Barbara Tedlock, Dreaming: Anthropological and
Psychological Perspectives. American Ethnologist 16 (3): 602-603.
1990
The Scientists vs. The Humanists. Anthropology Newsletter, February
1990: 28.
1990
The Transformation of Self in Tourism.
Supplement 160, 90S22129/ISA/5811.
1990
Tenure Narratives. Anthropology Newsletter. September 1990: 48-
1991
Review of: Richard Schechner and Willa Appel (eds.), By Means of
Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual. American
Anthropologist 93(4): 966-967.
1993
Review of: Dean MacCannell, Empty Meeting Ground: The Tourist
Papers. London: Routledge. American Anthropologist 95: 459-460.
1994
Review of: Vikram Jayanti, Les Blank, and Chris Simon, Innocents
Abroad. Flower Films. Annals of Tourism Research 21 (4): 889-891.
1995
Review of: Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King, and Michael J. G.
Parnwell, eds. Tourism in South-East Asia. London: Routledge.
American Ethnologist 22: 432.
1998
Clifford Geertz: His Critics and Followers, 1998. Review of: Sherry
B. Ortner, ed. The Fate of Culture: Geertz and Beyond. Special
Issue, Representations 59, Summer 1997. Anthropology and Humanism
23 (2): 215-217.
Current Anthropology 14
Sociological Abstracts,
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2000
Review of: Sight Unseen, a film by Nicholas Kurzon. News and Reviews
3 (2):8-9, Asian Educational Media Service, University of Illinois.
2004
Ethnographic Practice and Human Subjects Review.
Newsletter 45 (1):10. January 2004.
2005
Tourism Fieldwork. Anthropology Newsletter 46 (5): 16-19.
2006
IRBs: Going Too Far or Not Far Enough? David L. Felten;, Thomas M. Vogt;, C. K.
Gunsalus, Edward M. Bruner, Nicholas C. Burbules, Leon Dash, Matthew Finkin,
Joseph P. Goldberg, William T. Greenough, Gregory A. Miller, and Michael G.
Pratt. Science 8 September 2006: 1388-1389.
2009
Review of: The Study of Tourism: Anthropological and Sociological Beginnings.
Edited by Dennison Nash. Annals of Tourism Research.
2009
Review of: Bayo Holsey, Routes of Rememberance: Refashioning the Slave Trade
in Ghana. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute.
Anthropology
Papers presented at meetings and sympoisia:
1948
The Navaho and the Maya: A Comparison of World View. Ohio Academy
of Science, Anthropology Section.
1949
A Study of the Physical Anthropology of the Ramah Navaho. Central
States Branch, American Anthropological Association.
1952
Assimilation Among Fort Berthold Indians. Association of American
Indian Affairs.
1953
Mandan-Hidatsa Kinship Change.
Association.
1954
Kinship Projections. Central States Branch, American
Anthropological Association.
1954
Acculturation Processes.
1955
Mandan-Hidatsa Differential Culture Change.
Anthropological Association.
l958
American Indian Acculturation.
Association.
l959
Urbanization and Culture Change:
Anthropological Association.
1959
Kinship Organization Among the Urban Batak of Sumatra. New York
Academy of Sciences, Division of Anthropology.
l959
Ethnic and National Loyalties in the Indonesian Village. Association
of Asian Studies.
American Anthropological
American Anthropological Association.
American
American Anthropological
Indonesia.
American
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l961
Medan, Sumatra. Symposium on Pacific Port Towns and Cities, Tenth
Pacific Science Congress, Honolulu.
l96l
The Role of the Mother in Batakland.
Association.
l962
The Village-City Network in Indonesia.
Studies.
l964
Voluntary Descent Groups in an Indonesian City. Seventh
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences,
Moscow.
l964
Toba Batak Social Structure in the Late l950's.
Society, Amsterdam.
1964
Kin and Non-kin in Medan. Wenner-Gren Symposium, Cross-Cultural
Similarities in the Urbanization Process. Burg-Wartenstein, Austria.
l964
Mechanisms of Modernization: The Adjustment of Rural Migrants to
Medan. American Anthropological Association.
l965
An Incident in Batakland: Two Perspectives. Fort Ross Conference,
Interpersonal Relations in South and Southeast Asia, Center for
International Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
l965
Observations on Urban Ethnography.
Association.
l966
Some Problems in American Indian Urbanization.
Anthropological Association.
l968
Cultural Change and Psychological Stress. Eighth International
Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Tokyo.
1970
Anthropological Observations on Primary Education in Indonesia.
Workshop on Problems of Education in Developing Countries, TuguBogor, Indonesia. (with Elaine C. Bruner)
l970
Indonesian Ethnicity.
London.
l973
National Integration in Indonesia. Keynote Speaker, Conference on
Indonesian Studies. Association of Asian Studies, Madison.
l973
Indigenous Conceptions of Modernity in Indonesia. American
Anthropological Association.
l973
Ethnic Identity in Modern Southeast Asia. Ninth International
Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago.
1974
The City in Indonesia. Conference on Indonesian Studies.
Association of Asian Studies, Madison.
1975
Minorities in Indonesia.
American Anthropological
Association of Asian
Dutch Ethnological
American Anthropological
American
Association of Social Anthropologists,
Association of Asian Studies.
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1976
The Periphery Modernizes. Conference on Indonesian Studies,
Association of Asian Studies, Madison.
1977
Symbolic Aspects of Exchange in the Lesser Sundas and Moluccas.
American Anthropological Association.
1977
Art, Ritual, and Society. Conference on Indonesian Studies,
Association of Asian Studies, Madison, Wisconsin.
1977
Migration Theory, Symbols, and the Segmented Self. Midwest
Conference on Asian Studies.
1978
Models of Urban Kinship. Symposium on Urbanization in Developing
Areas, The Informal Economy and Capitalist Penetration.
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences,
New Delhi.
1979
Meaning and the Comparative Method in Batakland. American
Anthropological Association.
1980
Ethnography as Narrative.
1981
Megaliths, Migration and the Segmented Self. Symposium
on Cultures and Societies of North Sumatra, University
of Hamburg.
1982
The Symbolics of Urban Migration.
1983
Dialogic Narration and the Paradoxes of Masada. American
Ethnological Society. (with Phyllis Gorfain)
1984
Creative Persona and the Problem of Authenticity. American
Anthropological Association.
1985
The Semiotics of Authenticity.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett)
1985
Tourist Performances and the Ethnographic Original. Symposium, In
and Out of Boundaries. American Anthropological Association. (with
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett)
1986
Mayer's Ranch: A Tourist Performance in East Africa. Round Table on
the Social and Cultural Impact of International Tourism. Centre
National De La Recherche Scientifique, Unit‚ de Resherche En
Sociologie du Tourisme International, Paris. (with Barbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett)
1988
Toward a Postmodern Tourism: Leading a Tour to Indonesia. Conference
on Tourism and the Change of Life Styles. Instytut Turystyki,
Warsaw, Poland.
1988
The Ethnographer as Storyteller. Introduction, symposium on
Narrative Ethnography.
American Anthropological Association.
1988
Discussant, Unveiling Agendas: Person and Power in the Creation of
Anthropological Knowledge. American Anthropological Association.
American Anthropological Association.
American Ethnological Society.
American Folklore Society.
(with
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1988
Toward a Postmodern Tourism.
American Folklore Society.
1990
The Scientists vs. The Humanists.
Association.
1990
The Transformation of the Self in Tourism.
Sociology, Madrid, Spain.
1991
Between Tourism and Ethnography in Bali.
Association.
1992
Postmodernism, Reproductions, and Originals. Centre d'Etudes
Tourisme et Civilisation, and the Working Group on Tourism,
International Sociological Association, joint conference,
International Tourism Between Tradition and Modernity, Nice, France.
1992
Abraham Lincoln as Authentic Reproduction.
Association.
1992
Discussant, symposium, Is There a Future in Anthropology for
Comparative Research? American Anthropological Association.
1994
New Salem as a Contested Site.
Springfield, Illinois.
1994
Authentic Representations, Authentic Meanings. Society for the
Study of Symbolic Interaction. 1994 Stone Spring Symposium, Urbana,
Illinois.
1996
Performance Studies and Tourism Inquiry. The Jyväskylä Symposium on
Paradigms in Tourism Research, Jyväskylä, Finland.
1996
Performance and Tourism. Conference on Performance, Tourism and
Identity. Centre for Performance Research, University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, Wales.
1997
Recent Developments in American Social Science. University of North
Sumatra, Medan, Indonesia.
1997
Discussant, Symposium on Beyond Binaries.
Association, Washington D.C.
1997
Discussant, Symposium on, Subject to Writing: the Victor Turner
Prize and the Anthropological Text. American Anthropological
Association, Washington D.C.
1998
Return to Sumatra: 1957, 1997. Department of Anthropology, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong.
1998
The Ethnographer as Tour Guide: Adventures in Bali. The Hong Kong
Anthropological Society, and The Hong Kong Museum of History. Hong
Kong.
1999
Ethnic Tourism: Producers and Their Audience. Conference on
Anthropology, Chinese Society and Tourism. Yunnan University,
Kunming, P.R. China.
American Anthropological
XII World Congress of
American Anthropological
American Anthropological
Abraham Lincoln Association.
American Anthropological
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1999
Discussant, Symposium honoring James Fernandez. Movements of Moral
Imagination: Engaging the An-Trope-Ology of James W. Fernandez.
American Anthropological Association. Chicago.
2000
Tourism as Myth: Nation Building in Kenya. Symposium on Traveling
the Nation and the Nation's Others: Tourism and the Anthropology of
Tourism in National Context. American Anthropological Association,
San Francisco.
2002
Discussant, session on, Traveling to the Past to Create the Future:
Jewish Tourism in the 21st Century. American Anthropological
Association, November 2002, New Orleans
2002
Discussant, session on, Tarzan was an Ecotourist...and Other
Reflections on the Anthropology of Adventure. American
Anthropological Association, November, New Orleans.
2004
Roundtable Discussant, session on "How Does Ethnography Fit Into IRB
Guidelines?" American Anthropological Association, November 2003,
Chicago.
2005
Experience, Narrative and Memory in Tourism. Keynote address,
conference on Tourism and Performance: Scripts, Stages and Stories,
July 14-18, 2005. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England.
2005
The Role of Narrative in Tourism. Conference, On Voyage: New
Directions in Tourism Theory, October 7-8, 2005. Berkeley,
University of California.
2005
Through the Looking Glass: Reflections on an Anthropological Life.
Session on Performance, Tourism and Ethnographic Practice: An
Exploration of the Work of Edward M. Bruner. American
Anthropological Association, December, 2005, Washington D.C.
2006
Auto-Anthropologia Del Turismo.
9, 2006.
2007
From Native America to Indonesia to Africa to US and Beyond. Session
on “Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Challenges—and Pleasures—of
Switching Field Sites.” American Anthropological Association,
November 2007, Washington D.C.
2008
The Life of an American Anthropologist: Pro and Con; American
Heritage Sites, Abraham Lincoln, and Lost Authenticity. Lectures at
Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. April 2008.
2008
Discussant, Session on The Legacy of Daphne Berdahl, American
Anthropological Association, December 2008, San Francisco.
Casa della Cultura, Milan. October
Lectures at Universities:
University of Hawaii, Southern Illinois University, Northern Illinois
University, Yale University, Brown University, Loyola, Mt. Holyoke, University
of Colorado, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at
Los Angeles, University of Oregon, University of Virginia, Rice University,
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University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, Ohio State University, State
University of New York at Buffalo, New York University, University of North
Sumatra, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Bucknell University, Doshsiha
University
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